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We set out to make Islamic children’s books good enough to be judged as children’s books. Then schools asked us how to teach them, and we ended up building six platforms as well.
Too much Islamic children's publishing asks to be forgiven — for the artwork, for the writing, for the printing — on the grounds that the subject is good. A child does not grant that concession. They put the book down.
So the standard we set was simple and unglamorous: a Sidr book has to survive being compared with anything else on the shelf. Story first. Pictures a four-year-old wants to look at twice. Paper that survives a Year 2 classroom.
Everything else we do — the levelling, the toolkits, the platforms — exists because schools kept asking the same question: these are lovely, but how do I actually teach with them on a Tuesday?
Sidr Productions began at home, with two parents looking for Islamic books their own children would choose off a shelf — and not finding enough of them. The question they started with is still the one on the wall: how do we make something that actually lasts for our children, and for families everywhere?
Co-founder
Co-founded Sidr Productions with a background spanning education, entrepreneurship and technology. A parent first — the standard every Sidr book is held to started as a standard set at home.
Co-founder
Co-founded Sidr Productions and leads the work that turned a catalogue into a programme — the levelling, the platforms and the school partnerships that carry the books into classrooms across four countries.
Registered in England and Wales. Sidr Productions Limited, company no. 16179675.
That is the whole test. Not whether the book teaches the right lesson — whether it gets read twice.
It is why we publish in series rather than singles, why every title is assessed rather than guessed at, and why we wrote a year of teaching for each series instead of leaving a teacher to invent it on a Sunday night.
A book does not become good because its subject is good. Ours are judged on the writing, the pictures and whether a child asks for it again.
Our reading level is publisher-developed and we never call it validated. We would rather be trusted on a small claim than doubted on a large one.
Everything we ship asks: does this save a real person real time on a Tuesday?
Every product costs the same. Second and third are half price. You can do it in your head at a stand, without a rate card.
Nominated for the Palestine Book Award 2026. Eight titles selected by Malaysia's Ministry of Education and taken into four state library collections.
A publishing house for Islamic children’s books that would be judged as children’s books first — written, illustrated and edited to the standard of anything else on the shelf.
Board books, picture books, early readers and reference titles, grouped into series so a child has somewhere to go next.
The catalogue goes digital and levelled, and schools start asking for the things that become the other five platforms.
Followed by four state library collections — Selangor, Johor, Perak and Pulau Pinang.
Noor and her Paper Boat and Yasser’s Dream for the Palestine Book Award, and My Quran Journey as a GESS Education Awards finalist.
Thirty-six weeks of teaching per series, mapped to four curriculum frameworks, included in the licence.
Editorial, illustration, levelling and print — the whole catalogue and the series it is organised into.
Six platforms built in-house, sharing one student record and one set of accounts.
Translation, co-edition and territory rights across the catalogue, handled directly.
Nominated for the Palestine Book Award 2026, a finalist at the GESS Education Awards 2026, selected as recommended reading by Malaysia's Ministry of Education, and chosen for the collections of four state libraries.
Thirty minutes, your student numbers, an honest answer about whether we are a fit. Onboarding, training and data migration are included — there is nothing to sign to find out.